Shark teeth are often considered the most common vertebrate fossils in the world, and for good reason. Each individual shark has rows upon rows of chompers that fall out and get replaced in conveyor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleontologist holds a megalodon fossil tooth. Kristen Grace/FLMNH, CC BY-SA The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark ...

A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper ...

What we did To test these assumptions, we analyzed more than 500 teeth from 27 primate species, both extinct and living. The sample included gorillas, orangutans, macaques, colobus monkeys, fossil ...

Tiny, tooth-sized fossils have just reshaped the story of our deepest ancestry. Paleontologists have discovered the southernmost remains ever found of Purgatorius—the earliest-known relative of all ...

The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work. Our study was one of ...